Industrial Geography of the United States regarding mining of Anthracite Coal. Demand for coal in various parts of the world. Shipping of coal via export from United States to other countries in the early 1920s. Coal car lifter picks up coal car. Train carries coal to different regions of United States. Train passes through snow covered countryside in United States. Availability of Anthracite coal in United States.
Bootleg whiskey and liquor is brought up from an underground storage area via elevator and loaded onto a truck. A crowd watches along a city street as the liquor is loaded into the truck. Next scene shows the truck backed up to the edge of a lake or large body of water. Officials smash and break barrels and cans with spades and pick-axe to drain the illegal liquor. They smash beer bottles and empty barrels in the water. Final scene shows a group of men picking through the empty bins, bottles, and barrels, looking for leftover liquor. A man raises a bottle to his mouth to drain it. Another man finds a smashed can with some leftover liquor and he drains it into a jar.
Workers carry bales of cotton and feed them into a machine at a cotton mill in United States. Views of machines refine the raw cotton into thread. Women operate a machine where the threaded cotton is washed.
A cotton mill in United States. Rolls of cotton placed on a machine. Women worker operates the machine. Views of cotton passing through various stages of refinement from raw cotton to thread.
Rolls of cotton placed on a machine at a cotton mill in United States. A worker operates the machine. Views of cotton passing through various stages of refinement from raw cotton to thread.
A cotton mill in United States. Rolls of cotton placed on a machine. A women worker operates the machine. The machine refines raw cotton into thread.